El interventor y el Caíd. La política colonial española frente a la justicia marroquí durante el protectorado de Marruecos

Abstract

The Spanish colonial policy in the Protectorate of Morocco (1912-1956) maintained an official discourse of respect towards Islam and the Moroccan justice, but in practical terms the colonizers introduced important transformations in the local system of justice, establishing political mechanisms for its management and control. This intervention was implemented as a kind of indirect justice, similar to the indirect rule system; in both cases this policy displayed several material limitations and it had to afford serious problems of delimitation of competences between government authorities and judicial authorities. In this context, the «Intervenciones» system supervised the functioning and the structure of the Moroccan administration of justice, paying special attention to those affairs that the Spanish administration defined as dangerous for the maintenance of the colonial order.